Viktor Rudenko

Viktor Rudenko (1953-) was a Colonel of the Russian Army. In 2002, he attempted to sell the Oil Mafia weapons-grade plutonium from his base in Murmansk due to his anti-West ideology, only to be captured by the Rainbow counterterrorist team.

Biography
Viktor Rudenko was born in Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1953, and he graduated from the Moscow Military Academy in 1973. Rudenko served in the Soviet Army during the Soviet-Afghan War from 1981 to 1988, serving as the commander of the Kunar Battalion of the 66th Separate Infantry Brigade in Dzhelalabad (Jalalabad) from 1985 to 1987; he was wounded twice during the war. After the end of the Cold War, Rudenko rose to the rank of Colonel in the Russian Army, and he was stationed at the weapons storage facility in Murmansk. In 2002, Russian Mafia associate Maxim Kutkin offered to buy some weapons-grade plutonium from Rudenko, who agreed to a deal in Moscow. Rudenko was captured by the Rainbow counterterrorist team at his base in Murmansk, but two of his bombs managed to fall into the hands of the mobsters.